County Championship: Tom Alsop conjures up Sussex run spree towards Middlesex

Tom Alsop

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Tom Alsop is on a season-long loan at Hove from Hampshire
LV= County Championship Division Two, 1st Central County Ground, Hove (day one)
Sussex 354-6: Alsop 113, Orr 99
Middlesex: Yet to bat
Sussex 4 pts, Middlesex 2 pts
Scorecard

Tom Alsop scored his first Sussex hundred and shared a stand of 204 with Ali Orr, who made 99, as Sussex enjoyed the better of day one against Middlesex in the County Championship match at Hove.

Their second-wicket alliance helped the hosts reach 246-2, but Middlesex then took three wickets in seven overs after tea, including the in-form Cheteshwar Pujara for 16, to leave Sussex 273-5.

Mohammad Rizwan and George Garton counter-attacked impressively against the second new ball and, although Rizwan fell for 31, Sussex reached stumps on 354-6, having won the toss.

Alsop played superbly for the fifth hundred of his career and first since April 2021 as he and Orr responded after Shaheen Shah Afridi had bowled Tom Haines with a beauty which tailed in to knock back…

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